This paper looks at the 'cultural turn' in Russian politics that took place after 2011 and explains it as a 'rhetoric of reaction' that was introduced to deal with a crisis of neo-patrimonialism in Russia.

The international financial crisis brought Russia's run of economic growth to a halt and has given a greater sense of urgency to President Medvedev's calls for modernization. This, however, does not mean that crisis has ...

Robinson, Neil(University of Limerick, Department of Politics and Public Administration, 2008)

The Russian state at the end of the Yeltsin period was supposedly so emasculated that it had no potential to revive itself. But revive itself it has in some measure and this requires some explanation. This paper tries to ...

Many would characterise the international politics of the former Soviet Union as being fraught with competition and beset by weakness, war and chaos associated with contestations between nations and identities but this has ...

This study investigates public opinion formation in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary between 2002-2004 using Zaller’s model of opinion formation and Gabel and Palmer’s utilitarian hypothesis. The study has ...